Edit video and audio like you edit text — fully offline, on your device.

✨ Try it in the browser app.getrescript.com or download the Desktop App

Rescript is an open-source, transcript-based media editor. Drop in a video or audio file and it is transcribed locally with per-word timestamps and speaker labels. Delete words in the transcript and the corresponding clip is cut from the media. Export the final cut — without your file ever leaving your device.

See the Releases page. Desktop builds auto-update from GitHub Releases. Prefer the browser? Use the web app — same editor, no install.

• 🔒 Private by design — no auth, no uploads; all media processing happens on-device
• 📝 Word-level editing — select words, press ⌫, the cut follows the text
• 📥 Import your own transcript — skip Whisper and edit with an SRT, VTT, or JSON caption file
• 📤 Export hub — video (MP4/WebM, 720p–4K), audio (M4A/MP3/WAV), transcript / captions (TXT/MD/DOCX/PDF/SRT/VTT/JSON, optional timestamps on documents), or NLE/DAW timeline (Resolve/Premiere/FCP/AAF/Reaper/Samplitude EDL)
• 🧹 Filler removal — one-click cut of "um", "uh", and similar fillers
• 🔇 Silence removal — one-click cut of pauses and dead air (≥0.3s)
• 🗣️ Speaker diarization — the transcript is grouped by speaker
• 🎬 Timeline — waveform, wordbar with draggable timing handles, Split, cut regions, playhead; scroll to zoom, side-scroll to pan
• ✂️ Split & trim — blade clips at the playhead; drag clip edges to refine cuts beyond word boundaries
• 🎯 Word timing — zoom in and drag a word's edges when ASR alignment is off
• 🔴 Cut edges — drag either edge of a cut to trim independently of Whisper timestamps; double-click to reset
• ⚡ Live preview — playback skips your cuts in real time
• 📦 In-browser / desktop export — frame-accurate re-encode with ffmpeg.wasm
• 🎞️ NLE / DAW timeline export — DaVinci Resolve / Premiere XML, Final Cut FCPXML, Pro Tools/Logic AAF, Reaper .rpp, Samplitude .edl
• 🎧 Audio files — edit podcasts, voice notes, and interviews the same way as video